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Can it be used to stop OS X Spotlight from putting DS_store in every directory it sees?

Edit based on gumby's response below: can it stop finder from littering in every directory it sees?

Spotlight isn't putting that file there; that's where the Finder stores the directory-specific preferences (window size/position, list vs icon display etc). If you don't use the Finder (which I mostly don't) then you'll never see these files.

Spotlight maintains its own database in /

I have this at the bottom of my .zshrc just for this reason:

  # remove any .DS_Store files
  # (run in a subshell to suppress background job number info being printed)
  ( ag --hidden -u -l -g '\.DS_Store$' |xargs -n 1 rm -f & ) > /dev/null 2>&1

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